YELP

yelp. Yelp, v.i. to bark as hound, cry, chatter

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Yelp (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Yelped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Yelping.] [[OE. yelpen, ”elpen, to boast, boast noisily, AS. gielpan, gilpan, gylpan; akin to OHG. gelph arrogant: cf. Icel. gjālpa to yelp. Cf. Yap.]] 1. 1. To boast.
I keep not of armes for to yelpe. Chaucer. 2. 2. To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.
A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs? Shak. At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation. W. Irving.